Quicktime movies of plots of all the flights in US airspace over the course of a day. Surprisingly interesting even if you’re not an aviation fan.
Month: November 2005
Ok, which is it?
I got a spam from Verisign. I thought they were a legitmate business, so I have no idea why they’re spamming. Anyway, here’s the bit that annoyed me:
At VeriSign, we respect your privacy and we are continuously updating our mailing lists to make sure that only the people that want to receive VeriSign information are on our list. This will be the last mailing to you unless you respond to this email at this time.
and then later on in the same message
To remove yourself from receiving future VeriSign promotional
mailings, please visit us at http://www.verisign.com/compref
and update your communication preferences and user profile.
Notice the contradiction there?
Put down du jour
You know how you think of the best put down for somebody hours after you actually needed it? Well, I just had the exact opposite happen – I though of a put down that I don’t actually need right now. So I guess I should file it away. The put down in question:
Reality called. It says it misses you.
WebSense must be stopped
A member of my flying club can’t get to a web survey on my site because WebSense has classified the whole site as “Personal Network Storage and Backup”, whatever the hell that means.
Is there a way to get WebSense to stop misclassifying me?
Need a new graphics card
(Yeah, I know I haven’t been posting much. Mostly because the sort of stuff that’s bugging me right now doesn’t need to be shared with the entire web.)
I did the Ultimate Boot CD diagnostics that I wrote about in this previous post. And DFT said nothing was wrong with the drive, several memory and CPU testers found nothing wrong with either of them. And of course, I still have that message about the video card. So I’m thinking it’s almost certainly the video card.
I have an old ATI of some form or another in my desk drawer at work (I tried to give it to somebody there but he decided he wanted something with a driver disk and a manual). I think I’ll bung that in and give it a try, see if the system manages to stay up. If it does, I’ll try the old disk as well, to see if the problems with it were just a matter of needing a chkdisk or scandisk after all those power cycles. If that’s the case, I need to buy a decent but cheap AGP video card. My only two criteria are that it must be cheap (I think I mentioned that already) and it must give a decent frame rate in Half Life 2.